Supernova by Anne Leigh

Author:Anne Leigh [Leigh, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anne Leigh
Published: 2018-09-24T18:30:00+00:00

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“Where do you get the calmness to win these close games?” Iris Kent, Sports News’ football correspondent, asked Scott who was on the podium answering questions after another closely fought game, this time against New York.

His mesmerizing green eyes were zoomed in on camera and his lips turned up into a smile, “It’s all the years of practice and drinking coconut juice.”

A rumble of laughter echoed in the media room.

“Coconut juice?” Another reporter asked, honing in on the drink that Scott sometimes drank when he was with me. It was his favorite, and by the time this interview ended, I had an inkling that companies that sold coconut juices would be calling his agent for endorsement opportunities.

“Yeah, it’s high in fat which the body needs and I heard that it’s also a rich of source of potassium, calcium, among others.” While everything he was saying was true, he was also humoring the journalists. Although every aspiring quarterback in the country would now be stocking up on coconut juice, Scott’s prowess in last-minute touchdowns had become the focus of his recent interviews.

His close games were bound to send me to cardiac arrhythmias, and every time he threw the ball at the last second when the Royals were trailing by a touchdown or a field goal, I sent a prayer to the gods of all football stadiums.

I didn’t pray.

But for Scott, I did.

I wanted the best for him because I believed that he belonged in the grandest of all stages. He not only held the swagger of a great football player, he also held the respect of his teammates.

I’d seen it in the interviews that they gave after their games, it was all, “Scott this, Scott that.”

But one thing that he wasn’t was the arrogance that came with the swagger.

He was extremely confident, but he never once said that it was all about him, unlike his back-up quarterback who has been making a scene outside of the field.

Dex had texted me three times since I saw him at the club and I hadn’t responded to his texts. Whatever we had in the past belonged in the past.

I loved him, but the second he made the choice to leave me was also the second I made a promise to myself to never look back and to forget about him.

He would always be the boy who held my heart and my body first, but he sure wouldn’t be the last.

Scott hadn’t asked much about Dex, but I was inclined to tell him, especially since they were teammates. It was hard to find the chance to talk to him about my past when we were both focused on what we had at the moment, and now with the limited face time we had with each other because of his football schedule and my school schedule, we made the most of our time by concentrating on us.

He’d been gone for a little over two weeks, and the magnitude of his absence was weighing me down.

I missed the warmth his body provided when I woke up next to him under the sheets.

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